As Megan noted in her Up & Coming, the Dillinger Escape Plan are playing tonight, and there’s not an especially good reason to care anymore. I’m sure they’re still going to be tough and technical, but the addition of goth-punk singles and swoop-hair falsetto back ups will turn any respectable band into a dead scene.

If you are going though, be sure to get there for the first band, as they’re the only act on that bill that’s worth being excited about anymore - Barefoot Barnacle. They’re local, instrumental, and they fucking shred. I first saw them in the basement of a party I crashed, and compared them to old, good D.E.P. Their songs are intense and complicated, and succeed in the hardest part of being an instrumental metal band: never getting repetitious and boring. It’s about time they got on some big bills like this, these boys can throw down with the best of them.